The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-09

on our assessed valuation Of one hun.
dred and fifty million dollars.
This is whero the shoe pinches,
and it is hard for our poor people to
uear.-Columbiu Register. .'..! ),
Mr.. Ilke on tho Great Need Of tho Times,
and the Remedy.
Ar. lie, in AJ6evHe Press and Banner.
! You will please take the chair
while Mr.. Ike delivers a few remarks
on the great necessity Of the times,
and | hope he will be brief, confine
| himself to the facts in the case, speak
the truth, not mention Cousin Sallie
! billiard, and quit when he is through.
What is the great need Of the times?
and what is the remedy? are knotty
questions, and yet many there be
that are ready to answer them, and
| but few of the answers will be correct.
lnnumerable clubs were organized to
discuss and illuminate these cues.
lions, but alas they are numbered
among the things that were, no two
OF thom could agree on the same
cause, or point out the same remedy,
and they have departed leaving this
club alone to face this mysterious
monster, that is so hard to distin-
guish and almost impossible to van
| Quish, veritable phenix, that will
not down, substance that you can.
not distinguish from its shadow, q
great and besetting misfortune is be.
falling us, a threatening calamity is
paralyzing us, now just for fun we
| will give few of the solutions Of
this sphinX.like riddle. Some think
| 1t is the seasc. . which are either too
hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry, and
each Of these conditions Of the sea
son are blamed SO it cannot be At.
tributed to either, as we lave every
variety Of them.
Some think, the fault is in the kind Of
people we have, but it cannot be since
we have every variety Of them.
Some think it is money we need, and
they arc wrong, for there is more
money in the country than mule
can pull down hill in q cart on ice
with both wheels creased. Every
body wishes for thousands of money.
MIR. Ike frequently imagines if he had
millions how happy and blessed the
country would be, and especially
himself, yet when he gets hold of q
nickel he does not properly apply it.
If he and the rest had wisely invest.
ed the few nickels that came into
their possession they would be we'll
off; still tlrey think they are the prop
er persons to handle millions, though
they are mistaken. A very few dol
lars make q great many Of US very
ridiculous, and if we had few thou.
sand dollars our pomposity and YER
bosity would be uncomfortable. So
the dispenser very wisely withholds
what he sees would make us as ridic-
ulous rs mule with red striped
breeches. We think it a great mis-
fortune to be poor, but the world
could not get along without poor
people. While rich people are Of
little or no use whatever, either in
war or peace, it is the poor people
that run the machinery Of the world.
Take all of the poor people out of
the country and the rich people
would not be worth the ammunition
it would take to kill them. They are
the slaves to guard the money that is
utterly worthless unless it is for the
use Of the poor people. Some think
if we had the right kind Of laborers
and could properly control them, es
pecialiy the negroes, we would be
happy and prosperous and have no.
thing to do but to say go, and do,
and our bidding would be done,
though our laborers are worthy their
hire, and if paid will perform. So
the fault is not in them. Others
think we need legislation, though that
cannot be since we have twenty. seven
kinds of laws to protect and guide us
in the paths Of prosperity and happi.
ness, and to shield us from wrong
and 1t takes n car Of books to contain
the laws Of each kind, there is not
vice nor n virtue in the category that
has not been prohibited by some law
or other, and there is nothing good
or mean for which our lawyers can.
not find law to encourage or to ex.
cnse. 1t matters not what plain.
tiif or defendant may do or be guilty
of, a good and true lawyer can find
law to justify it,. = .,r 49,.
Many people seem TO think the
fault is in theS religion Of the day,
and they are not so far wrong as you
might suppose. Still all the fault
cannot be in religion, and while this
club claims to possess very little of
it, there is undoubtedly a stream Of
pure religion that has descended
from the creation down to the pres
ept day, and while it cannot incul.